Re-design

Hello designers,

Here are the photos I took while testing out the sponge wand.

These were helpful recordings because a few were chosen for the power point slide I created for the presentation. They documented the process of using, the close up details, and the refinement areas of the sponge wand.
-RCJH

Backtrack

Hello fellow designers, 

Here is some things that have been missing from my blog. Over the break I will be catching up on project two and three since there are not too many posts from those. 

Re-Design Project Two

Original Sponge Wand

megan McBrides's prototype

Project Brief:

As a group we chose the bad design of a Sponge Wand to re-design. Each member chose three objects that they personally thought were not designed well and together we narrowed down. I picked and sketched three items; a closet space hanger, mascara, and a dish wand. As a group we made a mind map about the sponge wand to allow ideas, pros, cons, verbs, problems and solutions for re-designing the object to be visually manifested on a large sheet of paper. Then we pinned it on the wall to present our founding to the class to further analysis the sponge wand. 

We were required to document every step by capturing in with a camera. We made a list of materials to bring for constructing prototypes, and divided them up. Then we gave each person a job to complete and handle through out the re-design process. I got in charge of making the powerpoint. 

The second day of work essentially was creating three new prototypes of our future product. They each incorporated elements of the sponge wand that worked well and innovative parts to solve of a problem from the original wand. Three thumbnails sketches for the poster were also sketched for the redesign of a sponge wand. Next, a storyboard for our groups process was sketched, colored and went into the making of the powerpoint. We wrote a concept statement for the project and evenly distributed the research. The research was conducted through a series of interviews regarding how well the original sponge wand worked and what was positive and negative about each prototype. We were asked to have all the preliminary parts due for a class critique on October eighth. 

We printed out six power point slides, three poster ideas, and refined prototypes. We did research on companies who design dish wands and watch commercials advertising the good design of products. We posted on our blog this process along with others. A more refined version of the story board was drawn for the final presentation. The final prototype was created using minimal design and material with out leaving any essential parts of the function to the dish wand which was reduced to a hand held, easy to story, refillable, and cleanable pod to fits in the hand. 

-RCJH

Twenty-Five Folds

Hello fellow designers,

Today in class I got to see what everyone had done for this assignment. Seeing all of the progress made me think about how awesome this assignment was. Like I mentioned in my earlier blog that not seeing any examples of paper folding before made this a test in creativity. And I especially thought all yours were super creative. On that note I was inspired by the different paper and techniques everyone used like burning, and poking holes in the folds.
For those who weren't in class or just like my work here are my best ones.

 made in class

made from video in class

Have a Happy Thanksgiving break y'all

-RCJH

Foldsperation

Hello Fellow designers,

While making my fold textures for today's assignment I was mostly using of pure creativity. This worked  really well but was also a huge test. I desired to do a lot of overlapping with layers of paper to allow  the light to be shown through at different strengths. This was what I thought would be the most interesting technique and use the source of light the best. By doing this created a window shutter technique that was successful. It was the process of cutting and folding back pieces of paper to reflect light off of the angles. This created different a range of light like I was going for. Geometric folds were also an interesting play of the paper and I would like to explore this technique more. The one organic fold that I did turned out to be beautiful. It was a technique base off of the-dieing t-shirts were the fabric is gathered up in the center. When put up to the light source of my living room it created soft and delicate shadows within the shape. I was down to few folds left, I went on pinterest. Here is what if like from the boards.

Until next time, 

RCJH

Individual word: Follow

five refined black and white compositions
20 hand constructed word collages were made from my chosen word follow. A six inch by six inch template was used as well as futura typeface print out and black paper. They were critiqued base of visual communication of the definition and how the form supports  each design. The design with the largest f, an arrow, traffic lines, and spiral were communicating well. A suggestion made about the spiral concept is just using the single word instead of repeating each letter multiple times. Another suggestion for the traffic lines was have no concept of letters passing eachother. Also using closer for my design would be communicating it better. This feedback was then implicated into Illustrator designs using the pathfinder tool and critiqued again. Then five refined composition were created bases on that were mounted on museum board and displayed in class.

Letter Reflection

Here is a reflection to the Parts of A Letter Reading,

There is more complexity to typography than commonly known. It's a serious medium and has a long history. Terms are used to indicate parts of each type of different fonts i.e. bracket. The imaginary line that each letter of the alphabet matches up with has three components; baseline, cap height, and x-height. Each letter is characteristically different because of the marks it has or where it falls these components. There is both visual harmony and complexity to the alphabet. The vocabulary is correlated to the technical parts of letters. They are used in identification of specific typefaces. The more a designer learns about each part will help them create a more harmonious design. There are twenty five different parts of the alphabet that include all the letters, but all the letters do not include all the terms. The all have a stroke width. Some lowercase letters have different parts than the uppercase and visa versa. All the components of a single letter together make up the entire letter. Some fonts have different versions of each component and that is used to identify them with what font they are. Over all this reading was informative and understandable.

-RCJH